User:NM Demo

(alt account of User:Nick Moyes) My main account is User:Nick Moyes.

This is my demonstration account, intended for creating screenshots to show how to edit Wikipedia, or for testing/teaching purposes.

Since becoming an admin in 2020, I may also use this account for editing in unsecured places such as editathons, or when on public wifi/other people's devices.

Note: Between Dec 2021 and Feb 2022 I shall be using this non-admin alt-account for the purpose of familiarising myself again with the interface and default settings seen by brand new users. Mobile edits are likely to still be made from my main account because my password is so fiddly to enter I can't easily type it without access to a keyboard! I may also switch back to my main account to deal with urgent admin matters.

New user default settings - what they're missing out on...

Because this alt-account is using the Default settings experienced by every new user, I'm listing all the things I really missing from my own settings which I've tweaked over the years:

• Visual Editor is not offered by default. (Crazy!) Enable both at:' Special:Preferences>Editing>Editor>Editing mode: Select: 'Show me both editing tabs
• no 'Reply' tool (hugely missed) Enable at: Preferences>Beta>Discussion Tools
• no WP:TWINKLE (makes leaving tags and warning users easy) Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Browsing>Twinkle
• no 2-column Edit Conflict display (can't cope without it now) Enable at: Preferences>Beta>Paragraph-based edit conflict
• Syntax highlighting when using Source editor. Colour separates article text from all the other stuff. Switch on in Source Editor menu (blue slanted pencil icon)
• no Numbered sub-headings in pages. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Testing and development>Auto-number headings
• MoreMenu not active. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>MoreMenu: add Page and User dropdowns

More specialised settings I'm missing:

• Navigation Popups (great utility for checking diffs, hist and user info) Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Browsing>Navigation Popups .
• no Copyright Violation checker in the left hand 'Tools' menu.
• no Teahouse talkback tool (only relevant to WP:TH hosts) Enable at:
• My favourite Special:RecentChanges settings which only showed the most troublesome-looking edits. (This is my favourite setting)
• I'm not yet Extended Confirmed with this account, so I forgot various pages can't be edited (like this one)
• Highlighting: Links to Redirects are not displayed as green links. Fix this: See Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 17
• Highlighting: Links to Disambiguation pages are not displayed in Orange. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>Display links to disambiguation pages in orange
• 'Highlighting: Striking out blocked editor names. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>'Strike out usernames that have been blocked

Less important settings not enabled by default

• Link to edit lead' paragraph. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>'Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page
• Purge' option. Enable at: Preferences>Gadgets>Appearance>'Add a "Purge" option

Help:Visual Editor - items to address

The following issues are too complex to be addresses with simple edits:

• The Cite and Cite menu instructions are utterly dire, totally confusing and need to be focussed solely on en-wikipedia. They currently bang on about enabling stuff on "your wiki" - something totally irrelevant to every normal user. We either have stuff enabled, or we don't!

TWA

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